Posted on 02/02/2023 8:00:50 AM PST by SoConPubbie
A few days before America’s 2022 midterm elections, Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelensky accused Russia of firing a rocket into Poland. It was a claim with extraordinary implications. Poland, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, benefits from the alliance’s mutual defense pact—an attack against one is an attack against all. The U.S. would plausibly have an obligation to respond militarily to a Russian attack inside Poland. In making the accusation, Mr. Zelensky was pushing on the dominoes that could start the world’s first war between nuclear powers.
The rocket attack, it turns out, came not from Vladimir Putin’s Russia but from Ukrainian air defenses. Even after NATO made that assessment and acknowledged that Russia hadn’t fired the rocket, Mr. Zelensky continued to deny Ukrainian responsibility. The story faded from the headlines, and Mr. Zelensky enjoyed a hero’s welcome in Washington in December. American taxpayer money has continued to flow to Ukraine. A wiser foreign policy wouldn’t have let such conduct go unnoticed.
Bipartisan foreign policy consensus has led the country astray many times. Leadership in both parties supported the invasion of Iraq, the decadeslong nation-building project in Afghanistan, regime change in Libya and guerrilla war in Syria. All of these policies cost a lot of money and killed many. None of those conflicts has served the nation’s long-term interest. Very few were ever challenged by a leader of national significance.
That is, of course, until Donald Trump came along. American partisans view Mr. Trump’s record primarily through a domestic lens. To my fellow Republicans, Mr. Trump lowered taxes and worked hard to deregulate the federal bureaucracy.
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To Democrats, Mr. Trump was a corrupt narcissist who earned his two impeachments. Yet neither party acknowledges perhaps the most important part of Mr. Trump’s legacy: his successful foreign policy.
This is one of the many reasons the Globalist and GOP Establishment Money Men and Mouthpieces have lined up behind DeSantis.
Absolutely. But also negotiating hostage release.
And the Saudis loved him. Just like they now love Xi.
“Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars”
He should clue in Putler on that policy...
This is why Trump is the leader America needs.
From the JD Vance WSJ opinion piece—
“””A common critique of Mr. Trump, even from his ideological allies, is that he lacks “statesmanship.” Even people who like his policies wish he exercised more verbal restraint. Fair enough. But there’s an implicit critique of America’s leaders hidden below the surface of that accusation. Why is it that the people the U.S. trains for leadership are so careful with their words yet so reckless with their actions? Why does America devote billions of dollars to recruiting and training its best young minds for leadership, only to have those minds orchestrate one foreign-policy disaster after another?
The answer is that, from grand-strategy seminars to the State Department, our entire notion of statesmanship is broken. For many, statesmanship means having a polite social-media presence and throwing out slogans about “freedom” and “democracy” while starting world-historic catastrophes in the Middle East. I prefer a different kind of statesmanship: one that stands athwart the crowd, reminding leaders in both parties that the U.S. national interest must be pursued ruthlessly but also carefully, with strong words but great restraint.”””
Not counting trade wars, wars on small business, farmers and interparty wars I guess.
Trump had many significant foreign affair accomplishments. He was anything but a one trick pony as some who have now abandoned him seem to claim he is (not talking about you SoconPubbie). He has a list of accomplishments done in jusy 4 years that other presidents couldn’t accomplish in their lifetime- not that they even bothered to try to .
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That’s true. The retort to those that push that idea should be, “name the last President that was a statesman.” I’m not talking about the media gushing, but rather results. Biden can’t even shake hands coming off a podium, let alone speak a coherent sentence. Biden has done absolutely zero in results. Barack the Magic Negro started wars and destroyed nations. Zero result. But the media loved him. It would be racist to say anything negative about Obama. Jeez, he deserved a Nobel Prize for just being a half-breed Marxist that could read a teleprompter. Obama is inarticulate when he has to speak off the top of his head. He has stuttering negro syndrome and is often incoherent if you are looking for any meaning in what he say. George W. Bush was a bumbling fool. He was hated by many around the world, although there is nothing wrong with that. But he lied to America and the world. He thought starting endless wars was a good thing for America and the world. He was a tool of the military industrial complex.
I could go on, but the above covers this century. Bush, Obama and Biden don’t even come close to Trump’s foreign policy achievements. Trump was always very serious and clear about foreign policy. His foreign policy speeches were excellent and shouldn’t be compared to his tweets or campaign rallies. He dealt with China, North Korea and quite a few eff’d up European nations and he got results. Only leftists and a few neoconservatives don’t like Trump.
It should say any new wars, Should Trump get into office he’s gonna inherit more wars it’s gonna be a big mess, it’ll take decades to clean up should our country survive that long which I don’t think it will.
“””Only leftists and a few neoconservatives don’t like Trump.””
Unfortunately, I have found that far too many of my conservative family and friends have drunk the ‘don’t-like-Trump’ koolaid.
The usual words from these family and friends are: “We like what Trump did, but we don’t like his mean tweets.”
So I suspect there are more than leftists and neo-conservatives who do not like Trump.
I believe the best way to combat Trump negativeness among conservatives is to show them the words like JD Vance wrote about statemanship.
Don’t like mean tweets? Then you’ll love nuclear war! (or complete economic collapse)
Putin knows he is dealing with a total brainless fool in Demented Joe, so why should he change his ways? America, if not the World needs Trump.
If I had friends and family like this I would write them off as useless losers.
They remind me of the pathetic simps from my first adult league hockey team who always complained about the loud-mouthed, aggressive trolls we had on the team. Some of the whimpering losers quit the team, and the trolls were the ones who made us champions.
“Don’t like mean tweets? Then you’ll love nuclear war! (or complete economic collapse)”
Love this! Thank you.
Not starting any new, stupid forever wars is a key plank of MAGA
It can’t be separated out, or MAGA fails.
why do you think the Intel/DOJ/FBI deep-state spent 5 years trying to remove him?
Putin also knows Trump would give him everything he wants...
You sound like you long for the days of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama time..
Or better, all your recent Banana Republican Presidential timber of Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney..
All before Trump..
TDS sufferers are a cute bunch of monkeys
Maybe out of all those, only Dole would have been considered pro MAGA
Embrace your suckage
That’s why rinos and necons hate Trump.
He’s not willing to start needless wars for them to profit
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